The City Council hereby expressly states that its legislative intent is to adopt the provisions of its traffic control ordinances so they will be identical to or in substantial agreement with state law as to all matters of wording and meaning with respect to traffic control and to be identical with the state law in all matters of penalty for violations thereof as required by the authorization therefor by state statute and as incumbent upon the city by the decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota in the Hoben case. Violations are referred to throughout this code as “penal offenses” or “petty offenses.”
('72 Code, § 1105:00(1))